Murder Trial

Jury selection will begin Friday in the murder trial of two of three men charged with carrying out the November 2015 attack on Tyshawn Lee, a smart fourth-grader who prosecutors say was killed by gang members to send a message to his father, a purported member of a rival gang.

With a few days to go before the expected start of the trial for two purported gang members accused of killing 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, a Cook County judge has locked up three witnesses whose testimony is crucial to prosecutors.

A Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald testified that he opened fire when the teenager kept advancing toward him while waving a knife, adamantly sticking to his version of events even when confronted with video that showed a different scene.

Now it is Laquan McDonald who is on trial. After days of prosecutors making their case to jurors that Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke committed first-degree murder in 2014 when he shot Laquan McDonald 16 times, attorneys for the Van Dyke are presenting their own evidence. Their contention:...

An FBI ballistics expert was among those who testified Thursday. Scott Patterson describes the video of a test performed by a top-level shooter, showing how Van Dyke could have shot 16 shots in about 14 seconds at Laquan McDonald in 2014.

A doctor testifying in the trial of a white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the death of Laquan McDonald said Wednesday that it's impossible to determine the exact order of the wounds the black teenager suffered from 16 shots that were fired.